Inspirational Business Quotes:

Great quotes, like pictures, can paint a thousand words in a single sound bite.

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice;
it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
US congressman, Secretary of State

"Ask NOT what your country can do for you
ask what YOU can do for your country"
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Only a mediocre person is always at their best"
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
English proverb

"Vision without Action is a Daydream
Action without Vision is a Nightmare"
Anon

"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American writer and activist

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently"
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"It is wonderful what you can do when you have to."
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) Novelist

"Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process;
once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
Football Coach

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

"When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4bc-65ad)
Roman philosopher and statesman

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Goethe (1749-1832)

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable"
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact"
George Eliot (1819-1880)
English Victorian writer

"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility"
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other"
Japanese proverb

"What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down"
Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

"The truth of the matter is you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it"
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934- )

"Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr.Epstein"
Dick Rowe, head of Decca Recording Company,
rejecting The Beatles to Brian Epstein, their manager (1962)

"Things don't have to change the world to be important"
Steve Jobs (1955 - ) CEO, Apple

"Quality is not an act. It is a habit"
Aristotle (384bc-322bc)
Greek philosopher, physician & scientist

"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable"
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Don't find fault, find a remedy"
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby (1937- )

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"
Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965)

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"Knowing when to keep your mouth shut
is invariably more important than opening it at the right time"
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
American publisher

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience
like individual responsibility"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
American activist, writer & editor

"Never let anyone tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES"
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it"
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all"
Sam Ewing (1920-2001)
American writer & humorist

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly"
Dr. Robert Schuller (1926 - )
American minister

"When one door of opportunity closes, another opens for us;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we miss the one which opened"
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital"
Joe Paterno (1926- )
American college football coach

"The first rule of effortless management: Delegate"
Silent Partners

"The Journey without a destination will never end"
Keith Steptoe

"When you look up what do you see. Clouds or Blue Sky?"
Anon